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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Analyt Chem. 2019 Apr 29;116:292–299. doi: 10.1016/j.trac.2019.04.022

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

The various molecule types present in environmental and biological samples greatly hinder comprehensive MS measurements. IMS provides a way of separating these molecule types such as glycans, nucleotides, peptides, organic material and lipids based on their structures. In this IMS evaluation, glycans traversing the IMS drift cell fastest due to their ring-based structures, while lipids are slowest due to their rigid linear backbone.